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Hello, folks, and hey, Bear. Welcome to the Nate Land podcast. I'm Nate Bargetzi, Brian Bates, Aaron Weber, and the wonderful, the female Dusty Slay. She believes, Angela Johnson doesn't believe in space just as much as Dusty Slay does.

And the earth is flat. You got to be the conspiracy person. I can do that. You have ghosts. Yes. Are ghosts conspiracy? Not everybody believes in ghosts, I guess, huh? I do. She was originally scheduled to come right before Halloween. Yeah. That's what we're going to talk about. Uh-huh. And she's an expert on ghosts. Oh, yeah. So, Angela Johnson.

So glad you're, thanks for coming. Yeah, thanks for having me. This is fun. I've been wanting to come and hang out with you guys for a minute. We've been wanting you to come. Me and Angel go way, way back. She took me on the road. She's the first one that ever took me out anywhere. Really, the only one that took me out

I would go out with some other people. I went out with Maren. Maren probably was a good bit, but you were the longest. Yeah. I went out a long... I really learned a lot with you because we would go to all the clubs. Yeah. And really was just on all year. Went to Guam. Mm-hmm. You know, a lot.

Where was it? I can't blink in the other places. It was Guam and Saipan. Where's that?

Next to mom. It is right next to mom. What about Nate made you want to take him out with you on the road? It was hilarious. And a good hang. That's very important to me. I have to feel comfortable around you. And you got to be funny. I don't do favors on stage. You know what I mean? You got to be funny. And then we spend way too much time together to not enjoy each other's company. And it has to be something that you trust.

And I think I loved that you were married. And so you wouldn't be like hoeing out on the road. Yeah. You know what I mean? Because it's a different vibe when you're working with somebody who's like hoeing in the streets. Yeah. Like, oh, OK, just show up on time tomorrow. Yeah. Yeah. It was because you were single then, too, probably getting hit on a lot.

I actually did not get hit on a lot. It's different for girls. Like, I think it's like intimidating. Like a guy doesn't look at a girl in a position of power and be like, oh, let me try a hit on her. That's not really a thing. You know, I think if after the show, if I hung out at the bar and like mingled, then probably, yeah, but I never did. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There, when we, because when we first met, we both did New Faces. Montreal New Faces, 2008, I believe. Yeah.

And so it was, I've always liked this story because it was like, Anja asked me like, oh, do you want to go on the, do you want to open for me on the road? In my head, I'm like, we are both on new faces, Angela. I was like, why would I go open for someone that's got the same thing I got? Yeah.

And then we went to Houston, I think was the first one, and you sold out eight shows. And I was like, oh. Okay. This is different. That's why. You know, I still have a set from that weekend that plays on Sirius Radio. No way. Yeah, because they recorded. It was right when Sirius was –

I don't know, Sirius 2008, but it was like something, there was a reason I wanted to do it. And so it's still played. There's some old jokes and it's because they had an audio recording there and you could do it and I got it and I submitted that to Sirius. Oh, that's cool. And it still gets played. I wonder if I could ever go back to some of my old...

old tapes that I have and like submit it. Hey, this is vintage. I mean, I don't know that I want to hear any of my super old stuff. Although I'm currently posting like from the vault clips of like, this was my first time on stage and you know, stuff like that. But if you have old albums, if you have old stuff that you can put out on Sirius, I would do it.

Yes, absolutely. Especially when you own that probably too. Yeah, yeah. It's not through someone else. Right. Yeah. I mean, then you're going to get 100% of the money for serious. So that's what, that's the positive with that one that I have. That is like, I just send it. I'm not, you know, I don't own it with someone else. It's just me. And then we need all the other ones. They're like, you know, it's, you're splitting it because you don't own it. It's like half and half. Right, right, right. Whatever it is. But yeah, you should definitely.

submit that you're clean. You play on all the channels, that stuff, you know, those clean channels don't get, they don't, there's not that much they can put on there. I mean, there's a lot of stuff on it, but your, your whole album. Yeah. My new special. I own that whole thing. Cause I did it myself. That's great. That's going to go up there. Yeah. I think next year we're working on it right now. Oh yeah. Yeah. That's perfect. You get it. That's what I own. Hello world. And it was the only one I've ever owned. And, uh, yeah. Owning it is, uh,

You know, it's kind of crazy because you can do whatever you want with it. You know, when you do Netflix and stuff, you're like, you can only post so much stuff and blah, blah, blah and all this kind of thing. And it's wild to be like, yeah, do whatever. Like you see it in the email and you're like, wait, I have the whole thing? Yeah. Because you don't ever feel like you get the whole thing. Yeah. It's always with Comedy Central, like full-time magic, I don't have anything.

I don't have it. I don't have it. I can't. If you were like, can I go watch it? You know, I'd be like, well, I'll go buy it on iTunes. Yeah. But it's like when you're seeing it, like it's just in your email and you're like, that's crazy, dude.

just have the entire special and do whatever cut it up do whatever you want i just had a email earlier they were asking about like uh oh yeah when her exclusive rights to youtube are done and then we'll put it up on our channel talking about like the next steps after this special and i was like what are my exclusive rights done it's mine i own it it's on my page do i have an ex like you know what i mean then i'm like i don't know how long

do I get to decide how long I want it on my channel only? Yeah. Because typically there's like a boss that I go like, hey, how long, when's the contract up? And I can put it on other places. Yeah. So I'm like, oh, when is the contract? I don't know. What do I ask? Ask yourself. Yeah. And then tell yourself, I'm tired of you asking this question. Yeah. Yeah. You go, oh, you again. Yeah. Yeah.

You know what? Tuesday. Tuesday. That's when I decided. Yeah, I mean, that's the way a lot of entertainment is starting to become is this... Everybody can kind of do their own thing. And it's... I mean, it's a good thing. You got to be... It's like I always think you got to be somewhat careful. You don't want to be like too...

You know, like to like making people pay for stuff or like trying to, you know, it's like stuff just needs to be accessible. Yeah. But yeah, you can go. I mean, you can go make your own TV show if you want to put on YouTube. You can do whatever you want. Pretty fun. Another thing that I would say about you, Angela, that I've because I learned so much through watching you. Like when you come over, everybody knew you.

and hey i got come off was it full-time full-time magic i got i think with you really no the half hour was half hour comedy central presents dave rath called me you were at my house oh wow you're my parents house yes and uh and they called and i found out i got the half hour with you there and something that always stuck with me uh

that I might've told you before, but I'll say it again, that my dad always said about you is that when you came over to our house and you were the first like celebrity come, like no one, you know, it was like crazy that every, you know, all my aunts came over, like we had everybody come because they knew Angela was coming over.

And my dad said about you, he said, you know, Angela gave everybody her time. So like everybody you went to, you really looked them in the eyes and you gave them the time. And I carry that with that to me to this day because of just because seeing you do that.

That was always a special thing. Yeah, I stopped doing that. Yeah. That's changed. I travel with her now. She's like, don't talk to me. Don't look at me. Brian will bring that out of you. That's what we've learned. The thing with me is shut up. It's a lot of you again. That's special. I think her dad says he still, well, before he burned the house down, has her picture on the refrigerator. Yeah.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I love your dad. I mean, you were, yeah, you were the, you were our first, like, I mean, you know, you were huge. And so you're the first person we ever met.

saw that like, you know, people were like, she's coming to your house. And you're like, yeah, the girl from YouTube is coming. Yeah. But it's like the first you were. Yeah. I mean, you were the first wave of the YouTube. Yeah. If people don't know, it's the nail, the nail salon, nail salon girl. I'm sure people know, but if they don't, it's that in that sketch, like, and I mean, it was fun to watch. You have to continue.

Because you would close on it. I mean, I was with you long enough to see you try to be like, well, you got to stop doing it. Right, right, right. Like, it can't just be... You don't feel like you can do this forever. And it's funny because with that joke, like the nail salon was so... Everybody wanted it. And especially during those first months

four or five years. Yeah. Right. It was still like people were just finding it. And now it's almost like nostalgic. Yeah.

Right. So now when I present it in my show, I present it kind of like a thank you. Like, hey, thanks for riding with me for so long. Like, I know a lot of you know of me because of this bit. A lot of you heard of me because of this bit. Some of you quote this with your friends from high school and like, cause I'll have girls come up to me and like a meet and greet or whatever. And they're like, oh my God, I used to watch you when you were in high school, when I was in high school. And I'm like, wait, we're not the same age. Like what happened?

What do you mean? You look the same. Hold on. Wait a minute. And so now it's kind of like that piece that I like save for the end. Like we just experienced a whole hour of like new material, nothing you've ever heard before. And then, you know what? Thank you. So here we go. And then as soon as I even mention it, it's like,

Crazy energy. One of the biggest pops I've heard at Zany's was when I got to open for Angela and you did that. And I was like, oh man, that's amazing. Yeah. To have anything that resonates with people like that is pretty special. Yeah. Well, everything that I have gone through, all my experiences are through you. So it's all the...

You're welcome. Thank you. No, it means a lot. It really does. It's all the headlining the clubs and people are there to see you. I remember at Zany's we saw where somewhere else they're like, oh, you're like, hey, we need security or something, and no one would really do it. Then it becomes a problem. You're like, yeah, she should have –

Someone's got to be out there. They told you and I to do it. Yeah. At Zany's. They told us. And then it's like you just see all this stuff that you almost see. Him being security for anything is hilarious. He just stood next to her and everybody was like, I don't think it's worth going over there. I would just repel them by being close to her.

Yeah, well, they did. They're like, could you see guys going? How well do you think that went over with him when they asked to be security? Well, because we're not doing – we don't work for the club. Anything you might need somebody. That was a while. I think Angela had a lot of people didn't know how big she was. And so it was – it's like, oh, you know, Angela Johnson's coming this weekend. They don't think anything. Then they're like, oh, okay.

Oh, well, it's eight shows. And then I would see when she would take pictures with women, they're very excited. And then they're grabbing her and they're, you do this and do that. Like it's, you know, it's a whole thing. So if there's no somewhat control, she'll be out there for two hours and it's going to be exhausting. Yeah. But no one is, you can just see when people are like, they've never seen this. They've never dealt with this. So they don't know how to, they don't know how to do it.

There would be times after the shows like meet and greet at merch when I used to go out to the merch table and say hi to everybody. Whoever I was working with as a road manager at the time, we tried to explain like, okay, we need stanchions to like organize this and like keep people back. And they're like, we got it. We do this every weekend. We got it. And we're like,

okay. And then sure enough, it's just like madness. And they're trying to like problem solve where we're like, this is why we told you and then fix it for the next day. But it's like, it was a lot of that, that we don't like, they were like, we got this girls. Cause I was like all girls coming in me and a female road manager. And they're like, you're cute. We, we got it. Yeah. It's going to be, yeah. It's almost like, I wonder if it was just the fan. It was, you know, I wonder if it was the first, uh,

kind of, you know, like it's almost the surprise fandom that people don't know what they're getting into. Because you got to think before internet and all that stuff, most clubs, you're like, you know, whatever big act that you have, you know, that guy, you probably know the crowd that's exactly coming. There's a level of like, like,

you know, before internet, anybody that came through a comedy club that sold tickets was like, everybody knew who that person was. And then you really got in this phase now where you're like, people sell tickets and they don't, there's people that are like, I've never even heard that person's name. And you're like, well, it's going to be a problem.

That person's fans. And it was almost, you were just at the, you were just like kind of the first test. Yeah. You're the test for that kind of just thrown out to the wolves to be like, oh, it went from zero to like, we got to get people trying to get backstage. People trying to do, you know, like a Guns N' Roses concert. And then, but no one knows how to stop that.

You know, because no one's prepared for it. Yeah. Yeah. No one's prepared for that. And just, you know, people trying to take advantage at the same time because I'm so new. I'm a girl. And...

You know, especially with like at the time it would be like a sellout bonus. Yeah. You know, and I had no idea how the business end of things worked. And like for those listening, like if you sell up to a certain point, then you get a bonus. And then if you sell up to the next, you know, mark, then you get another bonus. Right. You have to sell at least like let's just say 500 tickets and you get your first bonus. Right. I remember being at a comedy club.

And we were going through the numbers at the end and let's say it was 500 and he was like 489. So close. Next show.

496. Ah, so close. And I'm sitting there with him going like, ah, so close. I almost made it. Not realizing anything. Like, I'm just like, you know, following the rules is how it works. And then I remember being at New Faces that year and sitting with Fluffy and

and just talking to him about like business. Cause again, I was just starting to like, people were starting to know about me and like what I was doing on the road and stuff. And I was telling him that and he goes, so why don't you just buy your extra tickets? And I'm like, what do you mean? He's like, you're six tickets away from a sellout. Just buy your six tickets. And I go,

I could do that? And he's like, yeah. Like I learned so much just from that one conversation with someone who had been doing this for years, but I didn't know any better. And then I'm pissed at this manager who's clearly

clearly taking advantage of me because if that was somebody like a fluffy coming in, they wouldn't have pulled that. They would have been like, and here's your bonus, you know? And it was like things like that, that I had to learn after being taken advantage of, you know, time after time being like, Oh wait. And then, then we got real straight. Then we had a clicker.

I remember Lauren would walk around with a clicker and count people. And I would tell her after a while, I'd be like, make sure the manager sees you counting. I want him to know that we're doing this. Watch us, watch you is what it was. Then we started getting a real like, okay, this is what I got. What did you get? And then, yeah. Henry Cho has a story about club managers doing that. And he and another guy, and they would have the audience count off

during the show. That's... Stop! Wait, how? How would they do it? I mean, I think the guy would just call out the manager and say, Henry said it wasn't him. I forgot who he was with. And he would like, just start right here. One, two. And everybody would just... No. Just so right there, you could prove how many people were there. I mean...

To take the wind out of the show. Yeah. It wouldn't take the wind out of my show. It would take about 15 seconds. You go, all right, we'll start one, two, there. What'd you get? Oh, you also had two. Okay. He goes, I had two and I was giving you a three.

Because I was counting you. Imagine being in that show where you had to shout out. How was the show? I don't know, but I was 17. Yeah, that would be brutal. And the thing is, too, is you're probably getting your bonuses. You're probably getting them and they're just making up that you're not. I always heard about that stuff, too. I heard a thing with you. I think that new thing with Fluffy where you just buy the extra tickets or you buy them out. It's that kind of business sense of...

And yeah. And at the beginning they can, you know, I think and hope, I think clubs have gotten a lot better with that kind of stuff. Like they're,

It's more, it's a much better process. It was the, the early on clubs versus like, you know, you were just right that late nineties to the two thousands. It was just, you know, again, there's no internet. No one can talk. No one can, there's no one like being like, yo, they're doing this. They're doing that. Now it's I, I, from what I hope and that the bigger, the big main clubs seem like they have got it in a better situation. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. And that's what you want. Yeah. As a comic, you want to get first, you get just straight up offer to come do the club. Maybe it's 800 bucks, no flight, no whatever. Then you eventually you go to, you get bonuses, you sell out and then you want to get to a door deal. That's your, if you're listening, that's your, that's your door deals. That's where, that's where you want to be. That's where you want to be. Yeah. So how quickly did you blow up from when you started to when you did nail salon?

The Nail Salon video, I had been doing stand-up comedy for four months when that video came out. And that video was recorded in 2006. It came out in January of 2007, I believe. And then from January to February, there is four million views on that video. And this is a brand new thing called YouTube. Nobody had ever heard of it. And then...

It starts going viral. And I remember I was, this is my space days. So my, my space page is blowing up. Um, I had a cousin call me in San Jose and she was like, Hey, there's this video going around at work.

and my coworker sent it to me and it's you doing the nail salon joke, but they didn't send it to me. Cause I, Oh look, here's your cousin. They were, it was just being passed around. They didn't even know I know you. And that was like the first time that I remember being like, Oh, that's weird. Hmm. That's interesting. And then, um,

Started getting messages all over my space like, hey, when are you coming to perform in Australia? When are you coming to the Philippines? And I'm like, what? I have 12 minutes of material that I wrote in this free joke writing class that I took at a church. You know what I mean? Like, what do you mean when I'm coming to Australia? Like, I don't know. And it just started like skyrocketing. And I remember.

I was replying to all the messages that I got on my space. And these were like thousands of messages that were coming through. And I didn't know how to be a celebrity. Nobody teaches you like, how do you be famous? Right. And so I'm replying to every single message. And also this is new era. Social media is brand new. It's we have my space. Like that's it.

And so there's no like etiquette or anything. So I'm just like replying to every single person who sent me a message. And then I'm like, oh my God, I can't keep up. Let me copy paste. Like, thank you so much for the support. Copy paste, copy paste. Like I was just saying that to everybody. And then I remember a girl replying and being like, is this a robot? Cause you already said this to me before. And I'm like, oh my God, sorry. I don't know how to be famous. Like I'm just trying to reply to everybody. And like, it was so overwhelming, uh,

And at that time I didn't have an agent. So, um, and I was trying to be an actor. I wasn't even trying to be a comedian. I was gonna be an actress. And I was like, Oh, I'll just, you know, do this thing for fun. Um, and I, I started getting messages from network executive assistants, um,

And they would send me a message on MySpace and be like, hey, I'm the assistant to so-and-so at CBS, at Fox, at all these networks. They would like to meet with you. They saw your nails on video, like to meet with you. And then I would come into these meetings and they're having me cold read for pilots. And I'm like not prepared for any of this that's happening. Like I have meetings. I'm like I had to buy a calendar. Like I didn't know what was happening and completely overwhelmed.

no agent to like organize any of this. I'm just showing up green to sitting in a network executives office and have no idea what I'm doing. And they're like, here's a script. Why don't you read that? And it's for like a CW pilot. And I'm like, okay, sure. I don't know to say anything like, Oh, can I step out for a minute and like run it a couple of times? Like I just like get this paper in front of the guy who says, yes, you're on a TV show for the rest of your life. And I'm like, Hey,

Hey, my husband drove, like, I'm, I don't know what I'm doing, but bombing all of these meetings. I think I would have done that still now. I think I'm glad I learned that now that I could say, Hey, I'm going to step out for a second. Thank you for saying that. I'm still learning from Angela. So it was a whole whirlwind of like, what is happening in my life? And I remember having a conversation with my sister and keep in mind too, like,

This is, you know, 2007. I had just come out of this season. Well, I wasn't even out of it when this was happening. This was the beginning of coming out of a season of no jobs, no money. I was on unemployment. My unemployment checks had run out. I had like nothing going for me. No auditions. I had been an extra. I had been a stand in. I got like a couple of commercials, but like that was it. And I was like in this super dry spell. And it was kind of like, OK, I think I have to go home because I have money to pay my

rent. I don't have anything. My sister would send me money to pay my rent. She would send me gift certificates to the grocery store. Family members would help out, but my sister was really the only one that was like, don't come back. Stay. Chase your dreams. Don't just keep trying. Everything in my life is like, no, sorry. You tried. Give it up. Then this YouTube video pops off.

Then this MySpace page started blowing up. Then all of a sudden I'm getting meetings, CBS box. All of a sudden I get a new agent. All of a sudden I get a manager. All of a sudden all this stuff's happening for me. And then that was January. And then by February I got a new agent. And then by like March, April, I auditioned for Mad TV. And then by May I booked it.

And then I was like, well, I better start writing more jokes because people keep asking me, when am I coming to perform there? So then I start writing as much material as I possibly can. So by the end of the summer, I'm now touring as a headliner. And now when I started headlining, there was like,

eight comics on the lineup because I didn't have enough time to fill it up. So it'd be like eight comics and then it would dwindle down to now it's only six and now it's only like, Hey, there's three. And then, then it got to just a host, a feature and me, cause I had written at least 45 minutes that I could do. And,

And so by the end of the year, my life had completely changed from January 2007, where I had nothing going for me. But all of a sudden, this YouTube video just pops off to the end of the year where I'm on MADtv. I'm touring as a headliner. And my life had completely changed. Wow.

It's a crazy year. Yeah, it's a crazy year. And you wouldn't first one out to you would just be the middle act, but you would sell so many tickets. Like, which is, I mean, you got really stuck in a situation that's a very rare situation where you don't have the time yet. But so they'd have to book her as a as the middle act.

And then, I mean, the headliner's got to go follow you as these people are here just to see you. I know. I middled three times. Yeah. My whole career. Yeah. That was it. And that's probably, they weren't going to allow it anymore. Tom Rhodes was the first person I opened for. And God.

God bless him. He was such a gentleman. So help like was not prideful in the least bit. I didn't know what I was doing, but they sent me to go do radio with him. And I didn't know that that's like the headliner does radio, not the opener. And all I know is like, I wake up early, they pick me up at the hotel. And then he's probably like, what's this girl doing with me? You know what I mean? But here we are both on radio and they're wanting to talk to me. And, and,

I don't realize how insulting it is to a headliner. I'm just like, I'm doing what I was told to do. This is my first time opening for anyone. Like the comedy club manager told me to do this. So here I am.

So that was him first. And he was so just lovely and kind and generous. And I love him to this day, Tom Rhodes. And then my second time was Al Magical. And that was at the Brea Improv. And love Al. And my last time was Steve Trevino in Houston. And that was the last time that I featured for anybody because I was selling tickets. So it was like, well, let's just give her her own weekend then. And that's how that started. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. Yeah.

You hate me even more now? No. I love it. Yeah, no, it was great. It was, it just, nothing like this ever happened. No. And so it just, and I, but you always did very good with it because you always wrote and you'd have to go up. And that's what I always would say about you is like, you're having to go produce all this stuff and you're having to learn all this at the highest level.

uh just as you're going and that's and it's very very hard to do that it's very hard to learn how to comedy takes a long time to kind of get into a groove and figure it out and you were just having to like just pump it out and that's you know yeah i mean when i first met you that's when all that stuff was popping off and i mean so many youtube stars they just

They hit for a while and then they just can't maintain it. But you've put out so many specials and I still travel with you and you still sell out everywhere. So grateful that people still want to hear from me. Well, you still, because you still put out new material. Yeah. Because you're, to keep it going is really on paper, it's,

Your career should be... Should not have been what it was. I say that all the time. Yeah. I'm like, what? Yeah. I don't get it. Yeah. His career on paper is exactly... Probably a little... His career is only on paper. But it's... For a typical blowing up that quick of a thing, it really... You shouldn't have...

most won't be able to, they can't handle to keep writing, to keep doing that. That stuff's exhausting. It's hard. You got to stay on the road. That's not easy. And you went through it and you kept doing all that stuff. And that's why it's sustained. This is the thing that I always talk about here. If you haven't act,

You always had an act. And so even when people come see you, they're actually seeing something. And then they come see you next time, they'd see something. It's not just built on nothing. There's an actual thing. And that's why you're here where you're at now. And not kind of just like, you know, you could be so far removed from comedy. Right.

because you could have been like, well, I can't keep up with this. Comedy's hard. It's hard to write an hour. Yeah. You know? Yeah. How many times have you middled? Your hair up like that? Because you got your thing too tight on your... What are you talking about? Your...

I like it like that. All right. I did that on purpose. Don't worry about it. I know. But when I just turned to look at you and just, and just seeing that hair and going like, how many times have you middle? You're like, it made it go up more. Yeah. It looks like your hair spoke for itself. Yeah. It's like your hair had its hands up going. I'll tell you. Yeah.

I want the answer. Yeah. I'm honored to middle for both of you. Thank you. What about me? Yeah. Same here. I'm honored. I'll middle for anybody who will have me. These guys, I don't care. I'll do it. Yeah. I will do it. Kit. Meal. I don't say that word right. Meal. Meal.

You say mill? With an L? I go mill. M-I-L-L? Mill? Yeah, mill kit. Oh. Yeah. Mill. Mill. That's how you start saying it? Well, I don't know if I'm saying it right. There you go. Let's start with you guys' comments. Kevin Mitchell, the comments read each week clarify so much about the previous episode that I have now started listening to the comments first.

then playing the previous episode. Oh, that's smart. Undoubtedly, one of the gang has given out wrong information or clarified the story they told. And it helps me keep up with the wild twists and turns of the actual episode. Some people may think it spoils. Spoils. Spoils.

Would you say like that? I like spools. Spools? I have a joke about this in my act. Spools. About saying this. Some people may think it's spools, the episode, by having some advanced knowledge. But for me, it's like reading a book before going to see the movie. Oh, that's fun. That's an adventure for Kevin. Yeah. Kevin Mitchell. Is that his name from Home Alone? Yeah. Isn't it? Also a baseball player. Is Kevin Mitchell Home Alone?

Kevin! Kevin's definitely his name. That's Macaulay Culkin, isn't it? It's not Mitchell, is it? Yeah.

I'm saying, yeah, really excited to be a guy. McAllister. Same thing. Kevin McAllister. Who's Mitchell then? Same thing. Kevin, I think you're thinking of... Played for the Mets. Yeah, the San Francisco Giants. That's what you were thinking, Angela. I wouldn't know any. You were thinking that. Come on. How did you know him? Do you remember him? Yeah, he played for the 86 Mets, and that was my team. I don't see it. Just started working at Channel 5. Graduated college four years ago. Four years before. He was in...

He played with Orcan Boyd. Remember him? I do. He was in left field one time, and somebody hit a ball down the left field line, and he caught it with his bare hand. No way. Oh, that's cool. Wow. Maybe that's Kevin Mitchell. I bet it's him. I bet it's him. Yep. Teresa Kelly. My husband and I drove from Vancouver, Canada to Seattle for Nate's show at the Paramount.

We had a great time. However, we almost pulled an errand and told the guy next to us, enough. He got up four times in the show to go get more drinks. In your opinion, what is an acceptable amount of times to make a whole row of people stand up so you can get drinks? That's a lot. Four is a lot. Four is a lot. Now, if that guy rode in, I would tell him he's okay. But no, four is a lot.

It's, yeah, four is, if you're dead middle. I think so much of this depends on how he, if he's apologetic to the, I'll forgive anybody if they go, sorry, dude, one more time. You know what I mean? Yeah. It doesn't sound like that guy was this way. Four times? I don't think anybody would get up four times. I think after the third time you go, why don't we all scoot down one and you just chill in the aisle. Yeah. Yeah.

You got to move a bunch of people. The hard thing with stand-up is it's an hour and a half, roughly, two hours, roughly, you know, but it's, and you're just going. It's not like a music, a band, you're like, yeah, get up and go. Like, but comedy is a little more. But four times.

No, I know. No, no. I mean, it's a lot of times. It's too many times. Four is a lot of times. Have you all ever done shows, either of you, in other countries where they have an intermission? That's the standard in a lot of other countries. Really? An intermission in the middle of a stand-up show. Yeah. I wonder if that cracks down on that kind of stuff, having somebody get up four times. I've thought about it, like doing it.

Like you want to add one in? Yeah. Just to, you know, be like after the, you know, do maybe do it after, like after the opener, just be like, all right, five minutes.

Here's, you know, not a long one. Like, you did five minutes to be like, y'all can run to the bathroom. I vaguely remember negotiating intermission out of a contract before. Like, it's vaguely sounding familiar. Like, what? No, I'm not doing an intermission. Like, they just warmed up the crowd. Now I gotta warm them up again? No way. Yeah, yeah. That's the thing. Comedy's not really...

It's not really like that. I've done videos. They want it because they want people to go buy more stuff. Yeah, doubles, concession sales. Yeah, that doesn't help my show. The only show I've ever done it, I did it one time, Kevin Nealon. He had an intermission. Really? Mm-hmm. John's tour, there was an intermission right before him. Oh, really? Really? The whole tour? Like 15 minutes, yeah. And does everybody get up and go? Yeah, and then he would open it back up with a video that they hadn't seen. And that would get people back in the room. Yeah. And then he would come out. Is it a funny video, like they're laughing? Yeah, yeah. People would argue with it.

No, I'm joking. John's been on. John's on our podcast. He's been on it. Really? He does an intermission? I don't know if he's still doing it, but for a while there, the churches and the theaters. And yeah, it was like a 15 minute intermission. Interesting. Yeah. We, you know what I started doing this past weekend? We played the George Washington sketch, the SNL sketch. Like, you know,

you know, and it's a five minute sketch and we play it before we just tried it this weekend and play it five minutes before we start the show. So it's like kind of like, it's just good idea. Yeah. It's just a nice, like, all right, have this thing on and no gets people to be like, Hey, I bet the show's about to start. Let's get it going. I was just talking about that. I told him I was coming here. I was talking to him on the phone on the way here. And he started talking about that sketch. Oh yeah. So good. Yeah.

Tell your brother hello. I know all the Johnsons. Where was it? Hillary, right? Hillary Nichols. Yeah. Hillary Nicholson got a question for Aaron. Hey.

I've discovered the podcast Somebody Stopped Me. Oh, boy. I just listened to the episode when you lost your keys at Office Depot. Just curious, have you been back? Any regrets in not signing up for the rewards program? No, man. I'm sorry. You had to listen to that. That was my podcast before I met you. Wait, that was your own? That's like your ex-girlfriend. God.

Kind of, yeah. It lasted six episodes. That was a new podcast. Oh, it was brutal. It's still out there. Yeah. That was when I was in Jacksonville. I had an awkward interaction with a guy at the counter. And then I went to my car and I'd forgotten my keys. Oh. I had to go back and talk to the guy again.

It reminded me of, I was telling them yesterday, I had a bad corporate gig yesterday and I beelined it to my car after the set. I didn't want to talk to anybody. And then I got in my car and they call me and go, you forgot to get a check. So I go, I'm not going back.

in there. So you did it for free? I said, well, let's, they're going to mail it to me. Yeah. But I go, I'm not going back in the room after I just, I mean, I sprinted out of there. I don't want to look at anybody in the eyes. Yeah. Hey, Encore, I'm back. This guy. One time, Aaron Webber. Somebody stopped me. Somebody did.

I got stopped a bunch. Was that the end of it? You did six episodes and then that was it? Yeah, about six. So was it just this Office Depot story? You just stretch it out for an hour? It was like my act at the time. This guy doesn't really venture off into...

30 minutes in, you're still, he's still in Office Depot. I don't get out much. He doesn't get out. I listened to one episode. That was the one I listened to. Was it really? Aaron has such a great voice. I mean, he kind of sounds like he knows what he's talking about. Yeah. The illusion of confidence. What was the idea of the name Somebody Stopped Me?

Because I used to go, somebody stop me. I used to say that. You came up with that? I had like open mics and stuff, I would say. I would never do that in a real show. You sold bumper stickers? You know, an open mic where it's just comics. You're trying to say something fun to get them. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, it's all good. Yeah, yeah. It's all the stuff you come up with. We're just throwing stuff at the wall, man. Yeah, yeah. That's fun. It's a creative world.

Becky Waller, unlike Dusty, who apparently has 12 of his own podcasts. Dusty has his own podcast. Dusty's got his whole world. I don't know if we all even know really what it's all about. We certainly don't know everything. I don't want to know, but I do listen to his podcast because some of his best stories that I bring up on here come from that. He's an interesting guy. That's good. Double dipping stories. Yeah.

Becky Waller. I was listening to a comics podcast this week, and he said that during a recent show, he did 10 to 15 minutes of his act and riffed an hour and 15 minutes. He said that what he'd done is called avoiding your act.

He said, when you have a bunch of gigs in a row, you can't be doing your act every night or you're going to burn it out and you're going to want to kill yourself. Well, that's all a lie. What? I'm glad there's no name. I don't know who this is. Was that you, Brian? Did you do that? You wrote for an hour and 15? She never said his name. She said it was a very, I took that part out, a very famous comics podcast.

So I don't know who it was. He did 10 to 15 minutes of his act and then riffed an hour and 15 minutes. That sounds like a not a good show. I think it'd be the opposite. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I don't think I've ever riffed 10 to 15 minutes. It's... There's... It's... Yeah. It's not... Avoiding your act is... If you...

I've never heard that term ever. When you do, like, it's crazy. When you have a bunch of gigs in a row, you can't be doing your act every night. You're going to burn out. That's insane. I have the most gigs in a row. How you make it great is you have those gigs in a row. When you go work out, that's like the idea of like if you did a work exercise and you're like, yeah, you can't work out your muscles too much. That's wild. Yeah, it's crazy.

Yeah, this is, you know. Yeah, that's how you get great. Look, I can tell you when you say the same jokes over and over again, you got to learn how to say that. That's something you're learning. You're always learning something. You got to learn how to sit there a little bit. Like now I'm trying to learn how to sit on stage and not be, you know, kind of just like.

I don't know. Just there's like, I'm trying to give myself a little more of a beat than I ever have. And you're, I'm doing that. I'm learning that now. Yeah. That's what, um, speaking of giving yourself a beat, I remember I would always watch Nate and I would be so envious and also nervous because he would sit in those silent moments. And I'm like,

I can't breathe. I can't breathe for you. And then he just keeps going. Like didn't even like phase. And I'd be like, Oh my God, how do you sit in that silence? Yeah. There was a bunch of them out there. Yeah. Yeah. You get good at it. Yeah. Yeah. Like you take a purposeful beat and I'm like, ah,

I'm nervous. I couldn't do it. Naturally, I'm just talking slower. I think that's how, like being from the South, you just, everything's a little more of a drag. In my head, I don't think I'm going to take this big beat. But, you know, I would think I could talk too quick. And no one's ever said I talk too quick. But in my head, I could feel like I'm talking too quick.

Uh, but it's, yeah, it's, I think the one like natural benefit of just being from the South is just, I honestly think it helps your timing because you're just, you're, you know, you're just got a more of a,

Storytelling. Like just whatever it is. You just naturally do that. But I can tell you Becky. This person's. That's insane. Is there a joke in your act right now? That you get so excited. Like you can't wait for this. This bit. Like. Yeah. This one right now. Where. Yeah. Because I always have it. Right now I'm very excited about everything. Which is good. That's the whole goal. Because I understand what this person's like saying. When you do it. You get tired of your act.

You want to get tired of your act because you want to get into the stuff that you can't wait to say. And so the stuff that you can't wait to say because you know it's going to destroy. Now I'm excited because I can't wait to entertain these people. So I'll be like you begin laughing. You're like, man, I can't wait to get to this part because these people are going to lose. It's like making your parents laugh.

where you're just so happy and excited and you're like, you know, it's making your friend laugh and you're making, that's how I feel when I'm on stage. It's like, oh, I can't. If you're laughing this hard at this one, wait till I get to this one. They don't even know what I have coming up. That's the funnest thing in the world. If a guy riffed an hour and 15 minutes, he did an hour and a half.

I mean, it can't be good. You can't. No one's. I'm telling you, I think I know the ones that do it. The only one, Ian Bagg, is great at crowd work and great at doing it as a full show. He's very, very, but he's done it for years now.

Steve Byrne is, you know, Steve Byrne's really good at it because he mixes in. There's no down with them. It keeps going. It keeps, you know, and then Steve has got jokes. And then, so it's, you know, a lot of New York comics were really good at crowd work. Joey McCullough, who comes out with me, like he was like a lot of New York guys are really big. Big J is one of the best ever. They're great at crowd work because they've done it for so long.

But the new, you know, you're just not riffing an hour and 15 minutes. That's so much time. It's so hard, man. It's so long. I mean, look, if you are, really, this might be, that's maybe the greatest comic that's ever lived. If it's working, I'm talking about working. One thing to go talk for an hour and 15 minutes, but I'm saying it being a good show.

There's just no way. There's no way. You're just, you know. Melissa Sedlak. My husband and I got engaged and married in 2004. When my husband called his dad on his cell phone to share the exciting news, his dad said, that's great. Do me a favor and call back after 9 p.m. Yeah, I think that's...

That's been a few episodes ago where we're talking about cell phones and how it used to be there were certain times with roaming and all that. Free nights and weekends. It used to be a big thing in the commercials. I remember that. Did you ever deal with that? Not by the time I had my own cell phone, no. I wasn't a junior in high school when I first got one. It was free for all. Yeah, by that point. I remember paying for text.

Five cents or whatever. Yeah. And it was like, you just really couldn't. Well, that nail salon video that went viral on YouTube was originally intended to be a comedy clip for Verizon Wireless cell phones.

where you could download comedy for $1.99. They were going to charge people $1.99 to download that comedy clip onto their flip phone. Oh, wow. Wait, before? That's why you taped that night? Yes, that's what it was for. Because it was like that comedy. It was like whatever that channel was. Then YouTube came out. They're like, well, we can't charge people now that this thing's doing it for free. So they just uploaded all those videos to YouTube. Oh, wow. Wow.

Wow. That's crazy. Does your daughter have a phone? No cell phone. I mean, she has a phone, but it's Wi-Fi only. It's Wi-Fi only. Oh, okay. Like, I mean, it's not hooked up to, she can't use it. But I mean, she has a phone. She can take pictures and whatever. But she's got to be on Wi-Fi to do anything. How old is she going to be when you allow her to actually have a phone?

I don't know. I mean, I'm different than Laura. I would be probably more fine with it now just because she's 11. Whatever reason, she's probably going to get a watch. Yeah, she won't hear this, but I think for her.

Or she would have. Oh, yeah. This won't even. She would have for Christmas. She would have got a watch that had been a cellular. So it's like there is a way. And then she would have a cell phone, too. That's good. But yeah. Yeah. It's tough. Yeah. My nephew has a watch like that. And you can call or text people from the watch. Only three numbers. Yes. So it's like his mom is dead. And then my mom. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Do that. How old is he now? Ten. Ten. Yeah. Crazy. Mm hmm. Uh.

Drew Birdsong. So the only thing I know. So Birdsong, there's a Carol Birdsong. I know Carol Birdsong. You do? Yeah, because I used to work with her in the media. Oh, you know her for real? Yeah. She does all the announcements for. She's like famous. Yeah. Yeah.

Talking about the communications director at Williamson County Schools? That's who I'm talking about. Oh, my gosh. Yeah. Because everybody in Williamson County who has a kid in school knows her because they get calls from her, right? Yeah. Yeah. She's been doing it for a long time. And you personally know her? From my TV news days, yeah. Yeah. Because if school's out or whatever or anything going on at Williamson County Schools, that's who we'd have to talk to. Oh, yeah. Harper. Yeah, everybody knows her. Yeah, that's great. One of the Drew Bird songs.

Aaron started comedy at 23. That's considerably soon after dropping 150K on higher education. How long did he consider getting on stage before this? And can we have some context leading up to his first few open mics? I did it in college. We had a student group at school where we did a few shows for students. So by the time I graduated, I had done stand-up like five or six times.

And I don't know. I wasn't thinking too much about it. I was just working and just wanted to do it. Was your group called Somebody Stopped Me? Notre Dame Student Stand-Ups. That's what it was. Pretty good name. NDSS, yeah. Do you think it's going to work out? No.

We'll see. I'll let you know when I'm finished paying back Notre Dame. Yeah. Yeah. You're very popular in these comments. This is a, this is a unique episode. Yeah. It's air and heavy. That wasn't me. You knew what you were doing. I didn't know what I was doing. You laughed at it on your own. I think you, that, you know, that's on, you know, that ain't nothing to do with me. I didn't.

Casey Nelson. Yep. Pin and pin is something I've always pronounced the same until I made a friend that grew up in California. She had to set me straight, and now I try to pronounce the E. Pin. How do you say it, Angela? What? How do you say that? Pen? Yeah. Say it a second. Pin. Pin.

Pen. Eh. Eh. Pen. Pen. Yeah. Father. Is that how you would go? Father, give me a pen. That's how you would write your letters? You added an H in there. Pen. Pen. That's what I'm picturing you going down to your family. Pen. Can I get a pen, father? But you wouldn't call it Penn State University, would you? Penn State. Penn, yeah. Penn. It's the same. Oh, so I'm saying it. Pen. Pen.

What do you call this? Pin. Yeah. That's what I call it. We say it the same way. Pin. Yeah. How do you say P-N-G-U-I-N? P. Hold on. Yeah, you spelled that really fast. G. P-E-N. Penguin? Yeah. Penguin. Okay. How do you say it, Aaron? Penguin. He says penguin. Penguin. Oh, P-A-N-G. Penguin. Penguin. Penguin.

Yeah. Penguin. Did she say it right? Yeah, I'll give her a pass. Penguin. Okay. It's penguin where Aaron comes from. Because of the pain. Can I have that pain? I'm going to write a letter on this pine. Painsle. Painsle. Kevin Robleski. Robleski. Robleski. Robleski. Hey, bear.

I don't know if this has ever been talked about, but when Big Breakfast disagrees with something, he always puts out a, gets ignored and the pod moves on. Makes me laugh every time. Thanks for crushing it. Goodbye, folks. Yeah, there it is. That is the old passive aggressive. Well, I guess I'm saying it is what it is. Yeah, that's definitely that.

Maybe, what sound do you think? Because hmm would have an H in the front of it. What do you think that is? I think he's saying what you just said. Oh, so he just misspelled it. Yeah, that is a weird way to spell that noise for sure. I think I read it. You did a great job with it. Because that's how I read it. He spelled it M-M-M-M-M-H. How are you supposed to spell it? Maybe hmmph. With P-H first. H-M-P-H, yeah. Or mmmph.

I think I got it. Well, Kevin, I think you're stupid. So how about that? Now let's move on. Goodbye, folks. He says he likes it. Well, I don't like him. So let's move on. How about that? Bates Robleski family. Oh, boy. Goodbye, folks. They're going to have to meet at the fence. You're on my property. Yeah.

I think Jay used to have a joke about the property. And we talked about, I just love, like, it's a very Southern thing. To talk about your property. To talk about your property. You better get off my property right now. Or somebody in Manhattan would never be like, get out of my property. No. No, yeah. No, but it's the best because it's just like, it's my property. I mean, it's, you know, people like their property. Mm-hmm.

Property is a funny word. Mike Valor, Valier, Valier. I told my wife that if she's ever getting fast food and doesn't know what I want to just give me the number one. So far, I haven't been disappointed regardless of where she gets it from. Do you think you would be satisfied with the number one from any fast food place? Yeah. I think so. Oh, no. I'm very picky. Fast food? Yeah. Yeah. I have something specific from pretty much every fast food place.

What's your McDonald's? Oh, see, there's a thing. I don't really like McDonald's, but chicken nuggets. That's the only thing I eat from McDonald's. Chicken nuggets. That's it. With hot mustard. You're better than that, Angela. You're better. Hot mustard's amazing. People don't know about hot mustard. No, that's good. I like hot mustard. It's aced all chemically and whatnot. I love it. Oh, yeah. Hot mustard is... I remember when I found out about hot mustard. When Abigail, my sister used to work at McDonald's, I go...

get some hot mustard. Yeah, bring it home. It was a big, big day. I was like, you know, she brought home extra, like a, you know, it's like just try to get some, steal some hot mustard. I mean, is the number one the most popular thing on every menu then? I don't know if it's the most popular, but I think it's got to be the signature item, right? Like the number one at McDonald's is a Big Mac. I've never thought about this before. Like the number one on fast food menu is probably the most popular thing. I don't know if I even use numbers anywhere else. Where does you use numbers?

Oh, any fast food place is going to have the meals are going to be numbered. Arby's. I feel like I go to Arby's. I say I want the beef and cheddar. I say the name of the sandwich. But they are numbered here on the menu. The beef and cheddar would be the number one. Maybe I don't do that. Maybe I don't do that out of respect for McDonald's. Yeah. Yeah. I think the number one. Yeah.

Yeah, I think you go. Does Tennessee have Jack in the Box? Oh, yeah. We do, yeah. Okay. I don't think I've seen a Jack in the Box. I'll show you one. Okay, thank you. I'll show you. How many do you want to see? I love their tacos. I'll show you the shortcuts. Let me know, yeah. You want a dicey one? You want a little nicer one? I don't know if there's Jack in the Box over here. There's some where I live. Yeah, there's some where I live. In Hermitage, Old Acre, there's some.

Yeah. What's your favorite fast food? I love Chick-fil-A. I love Jack in the Box. Two tacos. Curly fries. I love In-N-Out. Do you guys, there's no In-N-Out here? No. Aren't they bringing one? They're bringing them. I remember the governor made an announcement. Five Guys is great. Yeah.

But in fact, there's no drive-thru with the five guys. That's a problem. Man, I saw a drive-thru at a subway. I saw a subway with a drive-thru. One across from Zaney's has a drive-thru. That's true. I thought about... That is true. That seems like a... Have you been through it? Yeah. Oh, wow.

I go to that Burger King by Zany's a lot. I sneak over there. I get two Whopper Juniors. Burger King smells good. Yeah. Like you can smell the flame broiled-ness. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. The fries are good. Emma, I'm an eighth grade fan of the Nate Land podcast. Thank you, Emma. On my first day of school this year, as class was starting, we were all talking very loudly. All of a sudden, my teacher yelled out, Hello, folks!

In the middle of all the noise, everyone ignored him, but I yelled back, Hey, bear!

It was at that moment that he realized that he had the coolest eighth grader in the world in his class. And I realized that I was going to get an A. That's awesome. That's great. That's awesome. This is a very clever comment. I'm almost like, did your mom write this or your dad or something? Because this is very well written and it has like good timing in it and had a really good ending. Yeah. This is what Emma does. Emma brings it. Right. I like Emma. Yeah.

Emma should intern for your podcast. Emma's the smartest person we know. Emma dumbed this down so Nate could read it. Yeah, she had it typed down and then she gave it to her dog. He goes, all right, for Nate. And his dog just, she let her dog walk over the things and then so I could read it. Because I read that one pretty good. So Emma, I'm by Emma. Emma knows what's up. All right.

JT Fulton. About a year ago, I showed my girlfriend's... Hold on. Sometimes I get started too quick. That's what it is. You got ahead of yourself. I just move. I head running down the road. Back it up.

Slow it about a year ago. Emma, come through. Emma, could you read this JT Fulton one? About a year ago, I showed my girlfriend Nate's first special. She wasn't a stand-up comedy fan, but knew I am religious about the art form and its history. Fast forward to us eloping three weeks ago and yelling, hey, bear.

as we signed our marriage certificate. We watch the podcast every Wednesday night together once we get in bed. Thanks for all the laughs. Something me and my beautiful wife now share together. Very nice. Congratulations, Hey Bear, to you guys. That's awesome. That's very sweet. That's great. You're all some nice... The Fultons. You've been some good... Been some nice ones. It's a wholesome episode so far, Brian. Well, you know, it's a new year. When's the ball going to drop? I feel it coming at some point. For your newer

Fans, can you explain the hay bear thing? No. I wish we could. Yeah. I don't remember it. You yell hay bear. Yeah, right. Okay. You yell hay bear when you go hiking.

So like, you know, grizzly bears, grizzly bears, you go, Hey bear. Hey bear. Oh, that's here. That's like a Tennessee thing. No, no, that's no, it's really California. If you go with animal, like if you see a bear. No, if you ever go hiking, like at Yosemite or any of these things you say, you could do it in smokey mountains. If there's bears, when you, when you walk, you just go, Hey bear, Hey bear. You just say that a bunch. So other people hear it. No, so the bear. Oh, so you don't surprise them. Absolutely.

So he knows there's a human coming. You want to announce your presence to the bear. Announce your presence. Okay, I didn't know if we're like alerting the other hikers being like, there's a bear up ahead. Hey, bear. Yeah. I thought it was that. No, I think you would say more like, hey, there's a bear up ahead. Hey, bear. Hey, bear. And they go, what? And you go, it's behind you.

It's already behind you. Yeah. If you go hiking, you should yell, hey, bear. Okay. That's really what people yell. And it just kind of spiraled. And now here we are. But I like it. Yeah, it's fun. Jeff matters. Could y'all settle a social etiquette? Is that how you say it? All right. Situation for me. When getting food at a single line buffets, do you have to wait in line and start at the front? No.

Wait, when getting food at a single line buffet, do you have to wait in line and start at the front or can you jump in at an empty spot, a spot that wouldn't disrupt anyone and grab your items and go? What's the social protocol for this? And has the environment changed like a funeral versus a wedding?

I don't know. Well, yeah. How many buffets funerals are you going to? I've been to. Oh, you can eat. You've been to a buffet funeral? I think so. Yeah. Right next to it. What do you do? It's not right next to the couch. You think the body is at the front or the end of it? Where's the body, Aaron? Where's the body? You think the body's just behind it? Is that an easier way to put it? Well, there is a science to how the food's laid out in the buffet, right? This used to be my job.

When I came home from school, I worked at Bluegrass Country Club here in Hendersonville, Tennessee. I was the official buffet guy. I ran the buffet table. And I know the science of it. What is science? I need to know. The science is, well, you want to put

Your cheapest food at the beginning and then the proteins and the more expensive food at the end. The idea being they fill up more of the plates with the cheap stuff. And they don't got no room. And there's only a little bit of room left for the more expensive things at the end. But you're buying and you're buying according to that. What do you mean? Well, I mean, you already bought that meat and it's cooked for the protein at the end. Right. But there's going to be less protein.

If the steak was right at the beginning of the buffet. Everybody's getting a steak. Right. If it's only at the end, you're going to go through less steak than you would. But I mean, but the steak is the featured player of the buffet. I agree. But if you put that salad first, everybody's going to feel the need to put a little bit of salad. Right, right, right. It has to look good. That takes up a fourth of the plate. So people don't judge them when they walk away. Totally. Totally. And a bit of steak. And you're saying the steak should be cut in pieces. Yeah.

No. You're not going to have a nine-ounce steak. I mean, if you're grabbing a nine-ounce steak, you're grabbing a nine-ounce steak. Well, in a buffet, a steak is going to probably, more than likely, it's going to be sliced like that. Yeah, or roast beef or something. Do you go to buffets very often? I feel like you need to. Oh, I love buffets. Have you ever done Adele's Buffet downtown? Oh, I don't know. Their weekend brunch buffet? Oh, it's so good.

Yeah, I love a buffet. Adele the singer? No, no, no. Just Adele's. It's in the Gulch. The restaurant downtown. Yes. There's that McDonald's on Broadway if that helps. Oh, this place looks nice. It's so good. It does help me. I know exactly where it's at. The brunch buffet. Bomb. Yeah. Yeah, I'm a big buffet fan. I think at a funeral. I...

I don't think the environment change. I don't think what the event is changes the etiquette at all. But what about jumping in? I think here's my thing. Okay. You do have a responsibility to move quickly through the buffet. So just everyone be aware of that. You see people and they meander and they lollygag. They need to move through it. Okay. That being said, I think it's rude to hop somebody that you don't know.

If you go up with your wife, if you go up with a friend and you're both in line, then you can kind of hop amongst each other. But I would never hop in front of a stranger on a buffet line. You know what I mean? Here's my only time that you would. Okay. If there's a big enough distance.

So if you, if you, if you'd have so far of a headstart, if that person's at grabbing their silverware and you're more towards the back, like three things, I think you could jump there. Cause they, they would never be in, you're never be in the way.

So you're already in the line. You're already at the food, but you know you don't want these next five things, so you jump over it like that. I'd agree with that. Yeah, but you've got to be far enough ahead that the person probably won't even notice. At least the halfway point. Right. Yeah. But I still think you need to say something to that person that you're cutting. You don't have to say something, but just make a noise or something. You know what I mean? You just go, something like that. And they go, yeah, I don't know. It would feel weird just to. Like an unfinished sentence.

Totally. That's perfect. Just gonna, don't mind if I do, make a joke about it. Because you're still going to have to go get your plate and silverware at the front of the line. You know what's up.

Now, you know what it is. Now that's, we're talking about the initial wave of the buffet. That's when there's a huge line. I don't think you cut it in the initial, in the initial. Now later when people are going back for seconds and thirds or whatever, right. Then it's kind of, you want your one item. Yeah. I think you walk right up to what you want. Then I think you abandoned the concept of a line. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Right. You're like, let me, I'm just going to go a little more mashed potatoes. Just one more scoop. Yeah. Yeah. You take your same plate.

No, you're not supposed to do that. No, no. Health regulate. They want you to use a separate plate. So you still got to go back, get up front. Yeah, but then you grab it. That's probably true. That's true. Yeah. So when you do that, yeah, you don't want to be skipping people. I'm sorry. I do. I bring good points. I assumed it was not going to be a good point and it was. Yeah, you don't want to skip. I'm just...

walking you through my thought process just now. I like a buffet, man. We had an expert in this topic. That's great. Yeah. That's why I put it in. It's an Aaron heavy comment. Did Jeff know that he was asking the question to an expert? Like, is that something you thought about? I think so. Yeah, I think Jeff watches the podcast.

I changed the word y'all. It was Aaron. Okay. That's pretty good. Yeah. No, you didn't hear what I said. Yeah, you said. Yeah, I heard what you said. You should have got more than it. Well, I also had a funny line myself. Oh, yeah. Guys, you're both doing great. Yeah. Huh.

The Robleskis. What are we talking about? Well, why don't you tell Angela because I think she'd be excited to hear about Rocket Money. Drop it. Cut it off. Cut it off. That's pretty cool. But Angela, isn't a new movie with Eddie Murphy? Oh my gosh. That's crazy. Yeah.

Did you get to hang out with him? No. Oh. No, no, no. But you were telling me a story about how when the directors were like, look, when the scene's over, keep rolling and we're going to riff. Listen, not even when the scene's over, just in the midst of it. Yeah. It was a lot of improvising. And...

So, and they warned me ahead of time. They're like, okay, here's a script, but just so you know, Eddie's going to improvise. And I'm like, cool, fun. Let's do that. Well, the thing is with my role, I didn't have very many written lines. If you watch the movie,

I'm not in it that much. Most of the lines that I had aren't in it anymore. So it's like, I'm pretty much like a featured extra in the movie, but it's fine. I was there and it was great. And the check cleared. So it's fine. Um, but so when, when he would say that we're in a scene where I don't have a line written, the guy playing my husband does not have a line written. And,

it's really just Eddie Murphy and Tracee Ellis Ross. They have the lines. And then like Ken Marino, who's hysterical, he had a line, but they would mic up all of us. And they'd be like, just find a window, just get in there, just say something. Right. I was like, listen, like,

When in this conversation between the legend himself, Eddie Murphy, and the most hilarious woman ever, Tracee Ellis Ross, them going back and forth, when did you want me to just jump in and cut one of them off? Are you joking me? I was so nervous. I was so nervous, intimidated, but also knowing my place. So it wasn't really a matter of just get in there.

Even if I did feel like I was the funniest person ever and I'm so quick witted, I know I'm going to have a golden nugget every time. Like it was a little bit of know your place type of vibe. And I'm like, I don't even feel right trying to jump in on their written dialogue. Yeah. Even if they start improvising, I don't know. And then the guy who plays my husband, bless him. There was one scene where we didn't have a line, but again, they Mike us just in case we find a window to say something.

And Eddie and Tracy, they're saying their lines. And all of a sudden he yells out something. Okay. This is a scene where they're making the announcement that the grand prize was a hundred thousand dollars in Tony's tacos gift certificates. Right. This is for Christmas. And Eddie says something like tacos aren't for Christmas or something, something like that. And then the guy from my husband yells out, Tony's Italian. Yeah.

Just out of nowhere. No context, no nothing. And all of a sudden, Eddie and Tracy go, huh? And it was so awkward. And I'm like, I'm holding on to him like arm in arm. And like, I'm in the scene. As soon as he yells that out, like all of a sudden, like my neck starts tingling. I'm like, I can't breathe. And I'm like, what is happening? Oh, no. Abort. What did you just do? And then they all cut.

And it was so awkward. And I'm like squeezing him at this point. Like, God. You know? And then they all cut.

And it's like a little bit awkward moment. And then he turns around to like Eddie and Tracy and the people that play their kids. And he just goes, I was trying to shoot my shot. Yeah. And then they laughed. So it was good. Thank God they laughed and they didn't be like, this guy messed up our scene. Like what the heck? Yeah. Like they laughed and they got that. He was just trying to get in. He was just trying to like get a line in there. So he's like, I just trying to shoot my shot. And everybody laughed and like, we get it. But Oh Jesus, don't do that again. Yeah. Yeah. That's awesome. Yeah.

Yeah, that idea, that setup is tough because it is like you want to go like, dude, what do you want? A, to do that would be like, we need to hang out. Right. So you would need to be like, we got to go to dinner. If you want to improvise a scene, I'd be like, let's all, you know. With Eddie Murphy. Yeah. I mean, you really, it's not going to. Well, here's the thing. Even if it was just.

I never went to dinner with, never met him before this moment, but it was at least a written scene where he says something, then I say something and then we're just going to make up stuff going back and forth. Yeah. I,

I could do that. I could play with you all day long. I don't care if I met you yesterday. Like that would be fun, but I didn't have anything written. It wasn't like they're even looking at, at me in this scene, they're looking at each other and I'm just supposed to like double Dutch into their, their scene. You know what I mean? Like that was the hard part. Cause I'm like,

this is, I'm not even supposed to be here. You know what I mean? Like they just put me a mic on just in case, but I feel like it'd be different if like I had a line that I can like make up stuff with it. There's gotta be a reason to go to you.

That's what I'm saying. There was no reason to go to me. And if you're not going to go to me, I didn't feel comfortable just going to myself. Yeah, who would? Tony's Italian. Oh, he went for it. Bold as ever. She's here following him to go, he is Italian.

You just point to your husband and you go, don't get him started on this house. That's in the movie. People are like, what? And then it's just you and this guy.

Just out of, y'all have a big Italian. Who are they? Yeah. Who were the people that didn't like Italian? And you go, that happens nowhere. Is it, how long does it take to, when you went to go film this movie, how long does it take to film the movie? This is an awesome cast, by the way. Yeah. Oh, incredible. Yeah, it's an impressive cast. I was there for like,

I think three weeks, maybe. And then there was bad weather and they had to reschedule. It was one scene in LA. And it was one scene that I actually had written lines for. And so of course, I'm already thinking about like, how can I improvise in this scene? Because I know I have lines. So I'm like, okay, I'm going to play it like this. And I'm already thinking of like ways that I could like, I'll try it this way. I'll try it that way. Next take, whatever.

And then it started pouring rain. It's outdoor. So they had to reschedule and they kept rescheduling, rescheduling, rescheduling. And by the time they rescheduled, I was already in New York filming an episode of Amy Schumer's show, Life and Beth, when they're like, okay, we need you next Tuesday. I'm like, I'm not there. Sorry. So like my one scene that I was like ready and excited to film, I got cut out because I wasn't there.

So your part is like, what's that? What's a whole movie? It's like four or six weeks, something like that. Oh, it depends. I honestly, I joined in February. They started it in January and I think it went into March. So it was like a few months. Yeah. And it just came out.

Yep, it came out. It's on Amazon. It's a fun holiday action comedy. Heart has all the things you'd want. It's a great family movie like you and Harper, I think, would enjoy. Yeah, it's fun. A lot of action, silliness. I'm loving that stuff now. I'm watching, you know, this would be right up my alley. Because it's stuff that's not...

As we talk about a lot on this, not serious, not as like heavy, not as, you know, like it doesn't need to be this thing. It needs to just be like, I really, it's a joy. It was fun. Yeah. I enjoyed it. It was a fun. We talked about Hallmark movies and it's like Hallmark does very good with that where they're just like very pleasant. Manny loves Hallmark movies. Oh yeah. He's seen them all. Oh yeah. And they're very fun to watch.

Have you ever done one? I think you were in a co-star of a movie that's very similar to Hallmark, I think, though. The Resurrection of Gavin Stone. Yes. Uh-huh. Same premise of a Hallmark movie, I would say. Mm-hmm.

Yep. That was a faith-based film. Faith-based, but guy has to go to a small town, doesn't want to be there. Uh-huh. Learns that life's not- The Hollywood star guy comes to the small town. I play the preacher's daughter. Yeah. You know. He falls for- That whole thing. You know, that whole thing. Yeah. Yeah.

That's great. And then there's Jesus. Yeah. Well, this week we're talking about sketch comedy. So Aaron and I'll take this. Let's go, Aaron. You guys can sit back for a while. Aaron and I got it. We will take the wheel. We are talking about sketch comedy. So Angela, you mentioned briefly, but you were also a member on MADtv. Yes. And how'd you get that?

Um, well, this nail salon video blew up my spot. And then next thing you know, I got a new manager and an agent and they got me an audition for Mad TV. And what's their audition process? Is it like the Saturday Night Live? Three original characters and three celebrity impressions. Did you do? Wow. What'd you do?

So here's the thing. I had never done sketch comedy before. I didn't go to Groundlings. I didn't go to Second City or anything. Like, I didn't know anything about sketch comedy. I didn't do celebrity impressions. I still don't do celebrity impressions. I can do accents, but not celebrity impressions. So what I did was I took that joke writing class at the church, the free class. Yeah.

That class really helped you a lot. This class changed my life. I took some of the jokes that I wrote in that class. Like, oh, I do this joke about my grandpa. I'm going to make it my grandma and I'll act her out and I'll just like give her more mannerisms. And I'm like, this original character is my grandma. And I basically just did my standup joke, but acted it out more. And so I did that with like a few of my jokes. And one of them was Bon Kwee Kwee.

And it was, this is my sister. She wants to be a rapper. And then I turn into Bon Quiqui and start beatboxing and like do the whole thing.

And for celebrity impressions, I've never done that before, but I went on YouTube and I was like, OK, who are three Latinas who are famous that I could possibly play on a sketch show? Jennifer Lopez, Rosalind Sanchez. And then at the time, this is when Paula Abdul was the judge on American Idol.

And she was very popular for seemingly looking intoxicated on the show. And she had her like drunk that she would do. And so I just went on YouTube and watched videos of them. And so I watched Jennifer Lopez on the red carpet and,

And I saw that she laughed a certain way. It was kind of like through her nose and like in the back of her throat and it's kind of high pitch and like, like something like that. And she would do that in these interviews. So I was just like looking for like little pieces of them. And then I noticed on her interview, she would wave like this. Like she didn't like wave like this. She closed her hand like this, like this was her wave. And I was like, okay. So, um, I, I copied one of her interviews and, um,

I said, this is Jennifer Lopez on the red carpet. Any question that the producers and casting directors asked me, I answered the same way. I just laughed and waved. And I said, hi, Philly. Because the interview that I watched, they go, can you look in the camera and say hi to Philly? And she goes, hi, Philly.

And then she laughed, right? So any question they asked me, I would just say the same thing. I would laugh and I would wave and I'd say, hi, Philly. Who are you wearing tonight? Nervous laugh. Hi, Philly. Whatever. They thought it was hilarious that I made this choice to have Jennifer Lopez answer the same question the same

like way like that was a choice it was really just the only thing that i could do with jennifer lopez and i did the same thing with each other one like i could do her drunk clap and then so i just bs'd it yeah and i booked it yeah and that's how that happened wow wow yeah i mean the the commitment that's the one thing that's hurts comedians is like uh

But they, when you, when I would audition is the commitment to it or the, you go into like do all that stuff. It's like, cause if a comic too could be, it was almost probably good that you were not in it as much. Cause then you actually just were like everything. You're like, Oh, well I got to go, you know, whatever, whatever.

You're like, well, I'm not going to go. Comics can – you can be like, I'll do whatever I wanted to go do. You can have like an arrogance that you shouldn't have. But you were in a situation where you did not have that. And so you took it the seriousness that you're supposed to take it. And then it worked out. It was that and it was also I didn't come into that audition needing it, needing that job. Whereas like –

a lot of the other people that were auditioning, you know, they've been in groundlings and, and there have been year after year going to study sketch comedy. And so like this audition is like their life. Like they've been working up to this point and they need this where for me, I was like, I'll try. So what do I got to do? Okay. Impressions. Okay. Let me go steady. Let me go do that. Like, so I had kind of a, an air of like,

I don't need this to happen for me, but I'll try. Yeah. This is so funny because I feel like this is the exact opposite of the point that Nate just made. Yeah. But no, I did take it seriously, but it wasn't my life. I didn't need it, but I approached it with like, teach me how, how do I do it? YouTube. Okay. Yeah.

Well, I think that's what I mean. It's taking it more serious than maybe, I'm saying as a comic. I know. A comic could go into it and not take it serious. Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But no, I definitely, like I approached it with seriousness, but I didn't have the, oh, I need this, please. Like, I can't mess this up. Yeah. Well, you didn't even know that you would need it. Yeah. Yeah. No. I was like, what?

Three celebrity impressions? Okay. How long were you on there? One season, pretty much. And even in that season, it was a writer's strike. I know we just came out of a writer's strike. And the one that happened before that was in 2007. And that's when I was on Mad TV. So after the strike ended, there were budget cuts. And by budget cuts, I mean me. I was cut from the show. And that was it. So I really only did four episodes. And that Bon Kukui sketch blew up.

So the nail salon blew up my spot. And then just as that was like trickling down a little bit, which didn't really trickle down because it still is crazy, but it started like slowing down. People knew of it already. Then it was like, oh my gosh, what do I do next? And all of a sudden this Bon Quiqui sketch, now that blows up. And it was like, I couldn't even have planned that. That was just, it did what it did. And so I had one sketch and people would be like, when are you doing another Bon Quiqui sketch? And I'm like, oh, I'm not on the show anymore. I don't know. Yeah.

Like nobody expected that Bon Quiqui sketch to blow up like it did, especially Fox. They wouldn't have let go of me if they knew that that was going to blow up like it did. And did the show end like right after that? There was, I think, a couple more seasons. It ended in 2009. Yeah, and I was on 2007. Yeah. Yeah. I wonder because if yeah, they didn't know it was going to. Yeah. Yeah.

I was surprised. It ran for 14 seasons. I would have never guessed that. That's a long, long time. You would think after it blew up, maybe they would have had you back just to even come do it. Did they ever ask you back anything? I came back in their final season, I think it was.

Or maybe it was a reunion show. Yeah, they did a reunion show. Yeah, it was a reunion show. Yeah. And so I came back for that and they gave Bone Queekly a fan favorite award. Like a fan favorite character. Oh, wow. That's awesome. Which I'm...

But at the same time, I'm like, I disagree. Like, I would say like Stuart is like a fan favorite. Miss Swan, because they've been on for years and years and you get to know Stuart in this setting and that setting and, you know, those kinds of things. Whereas I think they judged it because this character blew up bigger than anybody's business. But also, yeah,

YouTube wasn't around when Stuart was blowing up. So I think Stuart would have popped off, but everybody already knew of it. So his sketch is not going to go viral on YouTube because we already been watching Stuart for years. So we already know about Stuart. Yeah. But this was a new character, a new funny thing, a new platform. So it was just like perfect timing for it to blow up. So I was like, I feel like,

it was really Stewart or Ms. Swan or one of those would have been a fan favorite, but they named Bonk weekly fan favorite, which again, I'm honored and I'm grateful. Um, but,

Well, I mean, it probably was, though. I mean, it's, you know, sometimes it's that's the stuff that sticks with people. Yeah. It could be, you know, a lot of times something in some show, especially in a lot of sketch shows, it could be your memory of something is not a big thing. Also, I have a severe case of imposter syndrome. Yeah. So I've been told that by my team many times before. Yeah. Yeah. It's good to have that. Yeah. It's always hard to.

I don't ever want to be the opposite and like walk into a room and be like, think I'm the biggest thing ever. And all of a sudden be like, wait, who? Yeah. But if you can back it up. Yeah.

You know, why not? Yeah. Breakfast is early. That's what he says when he walks in. They call me breakfast. Okay. And other B words. Oh, okay. Okay. Yeah. Not dirty. That sounded like dirty. They call me another B word, but not all B words. I'm sure. Oh, that's fun. Yeah. There are probably some. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Did you guys grow up with a favorite sketch comedy show? You know, the Carol Burnett show. I remember. I mean, I was watching it on, I guess, TV. Me too. I thought you were going to make fun of me, but I was going to say that. Yeah, but you probably watched it live. I did. I did watch it live. You watched it like you watched the Andy Griffith show. So you might have been to a taping of the Andy Griffith show. Taping? Yeah.

The Carol Burnett Show. The Carol Burnett Show aired. I saw it in the late 70s. I mean, I was young, but I saw it. 67 to 78. Yeah. Wow. So, yeah, I mean, I wasn't, I was born in 79. Maybe I saw it in syndication, but I saw it. You probably saw it in syndication. But I remember, I mean, Mama's Family, I remember seeing that show. But wherever they would show this stuff on, what were they showing on TV land?

But I mean, that's all those shows I've watched. Dick Van Dyke. I wasn't watching on TV. I was watching on CBS. Oh, yeah. Well, I don't remember where I watched it, but see a Tim Conway, the one where he does the sketch where he gets the needle. It's still funny. Oh, it's still funny today. Your joke now is too relevant. There's a, there's a sketch where he plays a dentist and,

And he puts the, what's it called? The Novocaine. Novocaine. And he keeps accidentally doing it to himself. And it's, I still think it holds up. It's one of the best sketches ever. Oh yeah. Well, Tim Conway is one of the funniest people ever.

Like, yeah, so that stuff would have been... When did he... Yeah, 2019. Yeah, Tim Conway was unreal. Yes. So that was... Yeah, that was very much very early. That would have been my... Yeah, the sketch that I would remember. You know. Would your parents let you watch Serenite Live? No. I mean, I think...

If I was seeing Saturday Night Live, it would have been more like when you're in high school or you're...

you know, just, you saw, I don't remember how you saw it, but you would just, you would see some stuff. Might've seen it like late, you know, some, I mean, I knew about it, but I don't know. We were not sitting and watching it, but like Travis, my tour manager, like their, his family, they were, I mean, obsessed with Saturday Night Live. And so they watched it a ton. So a lot of it's to him, but then, you know, Adam Sandler movies and all that stuff can matter by new spade, all those, you know? Yeah. Did you watch? Oh, go ahead. Mine was, uh,

Amanda Bynes had a show called The Amanda Show on Nickelodeon. Okay. It was a sketch comedy. I mean, it was so funny. As a kid, it was the best. All right, that's good. And she was hilarious on that show. Yeah. And they were recurring characters. She played a Judge Judy character that was hilarious. What happened to her?

She took a turn, I think. Is she still acting? I don't know. I haven't checked in on her in a while. But she was in some movies that were. Isn't she? She might. I think she. She got a little crazy. I think she had some trouble. Well, we all have. Yeah.

We all go through some stuff, but I think she, yeah, it was like real, like there was something crazy. Now all that was like the SNL for Nickelodeon. Oh yeah. Or Mad TV for Nickelodeon. And that's where Kenan started, right? Right. Yeah. Yeah. And the, and the Amanda show and actually, uh, Taryn, what's how you say it? Taryn Killam. Yeah. You know what's crazy? She was on the Amanda show too. Which not, I think he was on Mad TV too. Very young. So young.

Yeah. Yeah, I mean, that's, you know... Yeah, I think if you blow up as a kid, it's... We were talking about that on the road. It's tough. It's just... I don't know how many situations it works where it's going to be a great thing. Yeah. Because they were... I mean, because some people, either they have to get out of... But they're just going to have a weird life, it feels like. Would you allow your daughter to be in the entertainment industry? If she's like, I want to be an actress. I mean...

I mean, I mean, you know, she wanted to. I mean, you'd have to see. I just would want her to go through all the stuff that it takes. Has she ever brought that up to you, like wanting to be in this industry? Not doing comedy, but, you know, I think she's very, you know, she makes up. She'll do a song and a dance and have all these act outs. And I mean, some of them I'm always like, how are you making this up?

And she's making out every move and all this. And she's very creative, very funny, all that stuff.

We'd tell her to do at school, go take, you know, go try to do that stuff. I mean, but it's the commitment. Would she, would they commit to it? You have to be obsessed with this. If you're not obsessed and you're just kind of like saying like, no, this is what I want to be. And then you're like, well, we, you got to go to, you know, practice today. And you're like, eh, I don't want to go to practice. Well, I can already promise you it's not going to work.

So you got to have an obsession with it. She's obsessed with horses right now. And she has been since she was a baby. So, you know, old enough to know horses. So Josh Peck. Yeah. Yeah. Josh Peck. He was on the Amanda show? Yeah. Yeah. And Drake Bell. The two guys from Drake and Josh. Oh, yeah. And then they...

created so this show was big i mean this was like you'd go to school and everyone would be quoting it wow you know from the night before how old are you i'm 32 oh yes i think about i just turned 32 that's why yeah happy birthday thank you thank you thank you

You put this out in a previous episode. You and Dusty born the same week and your children born the same week. Isn't that wild? Yeah. Whoa. That is. Of the same year? Yeah. Yeah. The same, like the exact same week. Dusty asked me how I knew that in the moment. It sounded really creepy because I didn't know, but you guys both had 40th birthday parties the same week. Mm.

And I'm the only person here probably cool enough to go to both. Probably the only person in Nashville that went, yeah, it was cool enough to go to both. So anyway, I'm a cool guy. But anyway, that's how I knew. I'm a cool cat. And then his baby was born like two days after Rosie. I think so, yeah. Or the next day. I don't remember. Very close. Code Nate.

wow, that's incredible. And then when you're done using that service, then you can go to Rocket Money and have them go. I mean, yeah. That's a lot of stuff done. Yeah. Clean up your whole life. Have you ever accidentally posted your personal information? You don't do a lot of like personal story. Like you're on your Instagram stories. Like, hey, I'm at home with my family. You don't do a lot of that. But I remember once we had a guy text me and Soder.

And a guy texted, I think he texted me and Soder together and just said, hey, I'm just letting you know, your phone numbers are very easy to find. And then that was it. And then he goes, but it was actually like a very nice, like it really wasn't. He's like, I'm never texting you again. I'm not trying to. He's like, and he was just kind of like, just heads up.

Your numbers, because your number would be linked to, that's our stuff for anybody that's older than kind of the new age of social media. Like we were, when you signed up for stuff, you just linked, I mean, you can put your social security number down on your MySpace page. None of it mattered. And so you didn't do it. That's what with YouTube videos, even sometimes you have old videos up and you're like, yeah, because no one, it didn't matter. No one watched it.

it. And then sometimes people are like, well, these videos are all the same. Yeah. Cause no one watched any of them. Yeah. And so now people are watching. So you don't think about it. Yeah. Did you post your stuff?

Uh, yes, I have accidentally done that before. Um, like mail with my address on it. Oh yeah. Um, now I'm very, I have to check my husband's page is what it is because he'll just be flippantly out there in front of the house just with the address on the back and I'm just like, take it down. Um, but yes, somebody did get my phone number one time.

And I don't respond to people that just leave me like a hi or something like that from a number I don't know. I'm like, what? No, spam. Bye. And a lot of times I don't respond to if it's not programmed in my phone because I don't delete anybody's phone number. So if I don't have you programmed, then I for real don't know you unless you got any numbers. So if you're texting me, then you have to lead with it's me. I got a new number. Otherwise, you're not going to respond to me. Anyways, this person messaged me.

Uh, how you been? I don't respond to that. I don't know you. You're not programmed. Months later, that same number texts me again. Another similar how you been type of thing. I'm like, I'm not responding to this person. Uh, and then like a couple months later was very specific and was like, Angela, uh, I loved your new special.

when is your next one or something, something that sounded familiar. Like it's probably an old friend. Yeah. And maybe they did tell me they got a new number and I forgot to save it or something. And I'm like, okay, this feels a little more specific. So I reply and I go, I didn't program this number. Who is this? And then they're like, you don't remember me. We met at such and such party. I don't go to a lot of parties. Yeah. Okay.

I already know you're lying now. Cause I'm like, no, we didn't. I would have never given you my phone number. First of all. And it was, then it starts turning to like, yeah, mommy, you don't remember. We met at this party. You gave me your number. My first, I've been married for 12 years. I definitely didn't give you my number at a party.

Then they start sending me nasty pictures. And then I'm like, oh, hell no. I for sure don't know this. And then it's like delete, block all the things. But I took the number and my friend had some sort of like software that is very like FBI type software or whatever. And did like a reverse search on that. Well, they started saying their name. First, they were Googling their name.

And they were for sure using this fake name and it was like a porn star or somebody. I'm like, that's not who's really texting me. This person is not somebody who's pretending to be that person. And they reversed the number and it went to some rando dude. And it was like in Ohio or something. And it was just one of those moments of like scary. Like somebody got a hold of my information and for months it

has been trying to reach me and text me and like sending me messages and finally was like specific enough to where I was like oh that's somebody I know okay who is this oh hell it was like violating yeah it's crazy delete me delete me I have yeah I have some random number sends me pictures of a tiger I swear it's just I don't know whose number it is

but I have 10, 12. But he likes it. He's like, send more. Yeah. I don't know whose number I don't, I don't, but it's just a tie. He ran to respond. No, I've never responded. And it's just always a picture of a tiger. Do you have a thread of just tigers? Yeah. Yeah. A thread of tiger. Is it like this guy is taking pictures of a tiger and sending them to you? Or is he finding pictures from the internet? It's a picture from the internet, but it's just of a tiger. And it's always a tiger.

And he just sends it and I don't know who it is. And I'm the worst because I'm always feel bad if I don't. I'm like, I'm probably supposed to have this person's number. And I, you know, but you don't know. I mean, yeah, I'll have people send him his text and they text you where they don't have your they won't say who it is. Sometimes it could honestly be a famous person and they won't say their name in it, though. And you're like, yo, dude, who is

I don't know where this is coming from. Or just an initial. Yeah. Weird. Yeah. Yeah. Like they're just texting something. You're like, now I got to figure out who this person is or yeah, whatever it is. And yeah. Yeah. People don't just say it's not never bad to go. Just throw your name back. Hey, this is our end of it. Say the person's name. Say your name. People just assume they just text.

What's interesting about that is my name is spelled so uniquely, right? So if I ever am like, I wonder if this is still so-and-so's number. And I'm like, hey, Janelle, is this still your number?

I don't want to say it's me, Angela, because of the way my name is spelled. Because then if it's not their number and then somebody like happens to know who I am and there's not very many people who spell their name A-N-J-E-L-A-H. Yeah. You know what I mean? Then I'm like, okay, I'll just put like Ange or something. Hey, it's me, Ange, A-N-G-E-L-A-H. At least that is a little like something. Like there's a little hint of who I am. Is this you? Yeah.

You should put A-N-G and put quotation marks around the G. And then they would get it. They would be like, ah, no, this is. You know, it's funny. That's how I spell Angela. The only way I would ever spell it is your way. Oh, that's funny. Yeah, just because I only spell her Angela's way. You don't know any other Angelas.

Uh, no, I'm not. I do. I just, I don't know. It is. I don't care. I don't. Yeah. You don't spell their names ever. I don't spell their names. And I guess I've just said you're, you're the Angela I've said the most. So I'm a, I'm a J Angela guy. Yeah. Hmm. Uh, did you have a favorite sketch show growing up?

I loved both Saturday Night Live and Mad TV because I loved Stuart and Miss Swan, those characters that I mentioned. And yeah, I love them both. I didn't have like I was never team like rivalry, like team Saturday Night Live or like people who are Mad TV fans are not Saturday Night Live. I was never that. What about Living Color? Oh, I loved in Living Color. Oh, I definitely loved in Living Color. Were they like a different type of person that would watch either show?

Yeah. Okay. And then in what way? I would say, you know, I would be, yeah, I would say Saturday Night Live looked like you and In Living Color looked like me. I mean, as I asked the question, I was like, oh boy, I hope she likes In Living Color. Because if not, I'm going to get canceled. I mean, Jim Carrey.

Yeah, it was crazy. He's the exception. But I'm just, no, younger, In Living Color is probably younger. You know what I mean? Legend, like Jim Carrey, Jamie Foxx, like, yes, younger. I mean, Jennifer Lopez started as, you know, one of the fly girls. In Living Color was... Yeah, In Living Color is crazy. One year for Halloween, I wanted to be a fly girl for Halloween. And I really, I was just wearing like spandex with like a glittery headband and like...

glitter on. And I remember like going trick or treating and they're like, and what are you? And I'm like, I'm a fly girl. Like, what is that? Yeah. And the, yeah. And that's crazy. And look, I've had all those people. Yeah. I've shared this before, but I think it's worth sharing again. Cause it's very interesting. They changed the NFL, the Superbowl halftime show.

The Super Bowl halftime show used to just be something very generic. One year, it was the Disney characters doing a halftime thing. And in Living Color, at halftime, there was a separate network of the Super Bowl. They did a live show, and people turned away from the Super Bowl at halftime to watch in Living Color. And it took away viewers to the point where the next year, the Super Bowl book, Michael Jackson is their halftime entertainment. Wow.

And ever since then, it's been a huge deal. That's incredible. Yeah. What a great story. Michael Jackson was a big deal. He was pretty big. I have heard of him. Yeah. Pretty big. Did you ever see Michael Jackson in person? I went to his house. Really? Yeah. Did you really? Neverland Ranch? Yes. I went to Neverland Ranch.

for his birthday party. - Wow. - What? - Listen, this is a wild, wild story. I must start from the beginning. I had just moved to Hollywood. I was a cheerleader for the Oakland Raiders. So I had an in to get in places, right? It was just like my one little card I could flash.

Anyway, so one of my girlfriends was in a music video and the artist that she was in the video for was throwing a concert. And so we went to the concert and we were backstage. We were total groupies. I was full on groupie mode. So we're backstage and there's a guy there. We meet him and he's like, yeah, I'm a producer. And I had remembered a friend told me if you ever meet somebody in Hollywood, they say their producer. It's a big fat lie. Don't everybody says their producer don't even fall for it.

So they're like, if they say, give me your information, our producer, don't do it. And I'm like, okay, noted.

And then so I meet this guy and he's like, you know, are you guys dancers? And we're like, yeah, we're all dancers. Because, I mean, we were, but it was just like, yeah, we're dancers. And he's like, okay, well, I'm throwing a birthday party and I need some go-go dancers at this party. Let me get your information. I'm a producer. I'm producing this live event. Let me get your information. I was like, yeah, sure. So I give him my phone number. Like, okay, cool. And he calls me.

like a few days later and he is like hey so i need six girls he didn't say girls keep their mind he said i need six dancers and it's for a birthday party and it's next weekend um can you get me six dancers i was like yeah i got you and he's like okay cool oh by the way it's at neverland ranch it's for michael jackson's birthday wow and i was like

Shut up. No way. Yeah. Okay. Sure. Six dancers? Got you. I hang up the phone.

Now that I know it's Michael Jackson's house. I did not try to get six dancers. I called six of my friends It was like do you want to be a go-go dancer? So and I didn't even call girls I called my homies I was like I called Chuck Chuck is a real dancer Harry who's a real dancer Harry Shum who's actually very famous actor now and like has blown up like crazy but

We were all dancers who do commercials and music videos and stuff like that. And so I called, I'm like, Chuck, you want to go to Michael Jackson's house? Harry, you want to go to Michael Jackson's house? I called my friend DJ Angie V. She's not even professionally dancing. She's just good at dancing. I'm like, girl, you want to go to Michael Jackson's house? I just called my friends. So a bunch of us got together and we went to the radio station and there was a charter bus at the radio station. I think it was like Kiss FM or something.

And we load into this charter bus and they drive us out to Neverland Ranch. And we get there and they're like, you can't bring in cameras or anything. This is before cell phone cameras, right? So like you can't bring cameras or anything like that. Leave all your stuff in the car. So we, in the bus. So we get out and there's like the archway, these gates and you go through. And the first thing you see is a train stop and you're waiting in the train depot. This is on Neverland Ranch. Okay.

While you're waiting in this little train depot, they have like ice cream and like goodies. So like you get an ice cream and then you hop on this little train and the train takes you all the way to Neverland Ranch, right? So you're just eating your ice cream on a train going to Neverland Ranch. And it's like huge. Yes. It's like a huge property. And so like you see it and then you see Michael Jackson's house is like right there. Like, whoa, that's his house? Yeah. Like right there. And then right behind it was his kid's playhouse, which is like a house that's like...

Equally as big, but it's just the playhouse. Yeah. And then we go to the ranch. We go see the games. There's like a...

Just like when you go to an amusement park and they have rides, the Ferris wheel, they had a movie theater, like a full movie theater with concession stand and everything. And I remember going into this movie theater and all the concession was free. So they gave me like this big bucket for popcorn, but filled it up with like King size candies of everything. You really were like a kid. Yeah. And it's very interesting. Anyway, they had this big, huge tent and,

out there like an event tent and you go in they have a dj and um they had gogo dancers that were dancing on the boxes and stuff and we walk in and the guy who booked us he goes oh i guess they already booked dancers well just enjoy yourselves oh wow so we didn't even dance or anything we literally were just at michael jackson's birthday party

Just walking around. And I remember at one point there was, there's security guards at like every corner. And there was this like group of people that started congregating around this one area. And so I go up to the security guard and I'm like, what's happening over here? And he goes, just stand by me. And I'm like, what? He goes, just stand by me. I'm like, okay. And I go, Angie.

Come here. And she's like, what? I'm like, just stand by me. And she's like, what's going on? I'm like, I don't know, but something's about to go down. So we're standing by the security guard. There's a bunch of people congregating. All of a sudden...

Next thing you know, the DJ announces, "Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the birthday boy himself, Michael Jackson." And he comes walking out of this door and walks right in front of us. And we became like those girls in the documentaries that just start crying when they see Michael Jackson. Like we became them. He walks past us and we're like, "Oh my God." We're like reaching for him. We're shaking, we're crying. We're looking at each other like, "Why are we crying?" And like, "I don't know." It was wild, the most wild experience.

I remember like going into his kids like playhouse and just like looking at his kids drawings on there. And I'm like, this feels violating. Like I should not be in this playhouse. And like, it was just the weirdest thing being at Michael Jackson's house. And then after the party's done, we load up onto the bus and we ride back to LA and we're like, what just happened? Yeah. Were there other celebrities there?

So that's the thing is there weren't that many celebrities. I think earlier in the day, there was like a big event because I remember seeing like in like people magazine or us weekly or one of those like tabloid magazines, they had pictures from Michael Jackson's birthday party. And it was like a daytime event at, at the thing. And there was all kinds of celebrities that were there. And then for the party, there wasn't that many people left. Like there was a couple of people that are like, Oh, I've seen that guy on TV. Oh, but no, it wasn't like Leonardo DiCaprio was there or something like that. Um,

But yeah, it was the most wild. I had just moved to Hollywood like maybe six months. I just got there. I was like, this is my life now? It's crazy. Did you ever get medium or you never really get close enough? No, that was it. How many people were there? Like a thousand? No, maybe a couple hundred. Oh, wow. Was the rest of the night just mingling or was it orchestrating? Dancing. It was just dancing, food.

Music. Did he speak or anything? I think he did like a thank you. Everybody's saying happy birthday. And he did like a thank you guys for coming. Have fun. Blah, blah, blah. And that was it. How old was he then? I don't know. I don't remember. It was 2003, though. Okay. He was probably around 50. 20 years ago. Yeah. Yeah. He was born in 58. Look up his birthday party and see if they have images from his birthday party in 2003. He was 45 at the time. 45. Oh, he's my age. Yeah.

Yeah. Okay. Yes, I don't know. I will do that. Thank you. Yeah. So this was Michael Jackson. This is a party? Since 2003. Yeah. Who knows? I mean. Well, he looks good. Yeah. Does any of that look familiar, Angela? I do remember him wearing white.

Yeah. There you are. Oh my God, they caught me. No, I don't think that's it. That looks like a charity event or something. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I mean, it's a guy that's like probably been thrown for his every birthday. He probably got thrown 12 parties. Exactly. The town, this town would like to throw you this party, you know?

Man, that's crazy. I have never even thought to Google images from that day. Yeah. I'm going to do that when I go home. Have you ever talked about it? I wrote about it in my book. Oh, yeah. I tried telling it on stage, this story that I just told, but I couldn't ever crack it because there's so many details. I can give you the abridged version. There's so many details to this story that make you go like, no way. And then this led to this. And no way. And then this. Oh, my gosh. Yeah.

And on stage, it just, it took too long. You got to cut the fat. Yeah. And I couldn't do it. And I was like, but if I cut the fat, you don't really get like how big this moment was and everything. And so it didn't work. And I was like, I'm going to save this for a book one day. And so I, when I wrote my book, I added it in there. Yeah. Yeah. That's such a, yeah. I mean, to see that big of a star. Yeah. I mean, it's like one of the most famous people ever. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

And never laying ranch. 2,700 acres. So big. Where was that? Santa Barbara. Oh. I think Santa Barbara. I think so. So you just drive up there? Mm-hmm.

chartered a bus that's a guy from the radio that that might be looks like a radio station party yeah i don't know all right i'm gonna share some stuff about the saturday night live that i thought was very interesting that i never okay never learned so the reason saturday night live even started is because nbc affiliates at 11 30 eastern on saturday nights were running johnny carson reruns it was one of the episodes that had aired earlier in the week

but Johnny wanted to stop working so much. He wanted to take a night off during the week and rerun that episode there. So he was like, you got to find something else for Saturday night at 1130. So the NBC president went to Lorne Michaels, who I think maybe was 29 years old, something like that at the time, super, super young, and said, can you come up with a show? There was already a show called Saturday Night Live,

They just started on ABC. No way. Hosted by Howard Cosell. Wow. Do you know who Howard Cosell is? He's this old sports announcer that did Monday Night Football. The last person you would think that would be hosting a show called Saturday Night Live. And it was one of the worst shows in television history. Yeah. That guy right there. Yeah. He did like the Muhammad Ali fight, right? Yeah. Yeah. Like he would do those big, you know, he was just...

the biggest name ever. Was that you just saying that? It was one of the worst shows of all time? It was my same birthday. That's what I read. I didn't see it myself, but it got canceled pretty quick. He was born March 25th. How about that? Same birthday. 1918. So that means NOAA was 118 years old. Yep. Yep.

So they couldn't call Saturday Night Live, Saturday Night Live, because there was already a Saturday Night Live. So when it first started, it was called NBC Saturday Night, which I never knew.

But then they would say, live from New York, it's Saturday night. Instead of saying, it's Saturday Night Live, which I never even thought about. And the Howard Cosell show, because it aired during primetime, they were called the primetime players. So on SNL, they were called the not ready for primetime players. Oh, yeah. So I don't know. I thought that was interesting. That's cool. That was good. They still have all that stuff, too. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, there's still all that.

Now, the Howard Cosell Serenade Live version did not last very long. He has a sketch show? Yeah. Yeah. But it was apparently terrible. It had Bill Murray, Brian Doyle Murray, who I had no idea that was Bill Murray's brother, but he's been in a ton of stuff. Christopher Guest. So they had some big people. Wow. But it just didn't last very long. Nate, how did it feel saying the slogan?

Saturday Night Live? Yeah, yeah. The live. I didn't say it. You didn't say it? No, I didn't realize it either until that thing, but it's always a cast member. Oh, okay. Because I never realized that because I thought, oh, maybe like, you know, because their first sketches, because I said I didn't want to be doing anything politics. So the first sketch usually is topical or politics.

So then I was like, oh, I don't even now get a chance to say it's like, but I didn't realize it was, it's always a cast member. Oh, it's never a guest. It's been a guest a few times, but it's, if it's a guest, it's, you know, it was like Alec Baldwin playing Trump. Right. Someone that's been on the show a million times. Even his episode, Christopher Walken was the one that said it. Yes. Oh, he did? Yeah.

Okay. That's cool, though. I would have been so nervous. I'd be like, oh my God, this is the one part I cannot mess up. Well, yeah. I mean, yeah. It was almost... Once you realize it's like not...

you're never no one's saying it you're like it's kind of relief like you're like okay well then i you know because otherwise you're just you know you're like well did i do something why are they not letting me say it like you know it could be a million things but then yeah you're like no no and i think i i like it that they it's for it's reserved for the cast is you know it really makes it special yeah about the cast yeah

You know, James Austin Johnson, our friend who's from here, he was playing Biden and Trump in his very first episode ever as a cast member. He was in the very first scene, the cold open. He came out as Biden and got to say live from New York in his very first episode, very first scene. And that's got to be crazy. I know. And then maybe your episode was the first one where they switched it to Mikey Day playing Biden. It was. Yeah.

And the reason I read, which makes sense, it's going to be Trump and Biden again. Yeah, they're gearing up for it. They can't play both. That makes sense. And he's a great Biden, but James is a really great Trump. Yeah. So that's why they switched it. Yeah. Oh, I didn't know that. That's interesting. Yeah. I mean, I don't know if they officially said that, but that's what I read, and that does seem to make sense. Yeah. That does make sense. Yeah, Lorne Michaels is one of the most impressive people I've ever met.

I mean, really crazy. Did you get to have conversation with him? Oh yeah. Like oral conversation? Yeah. Yeah. That's great. And I mean, he's, he makes you feel like a star. Like he makes you feel like, you know, uh, just, I mean, man, that guy's done everything. You do a dinner, you do, I mean, it's just, he's such a brilliant dude. He's there. He's around. He's, you know, you see the, the,

the cast will go up and talk to him at the after party. And, you know, I don't think no one feels it's the, it's the perfect amount of, uh,

respect and like accessibility where I think no one, I mean, I'm sure people do take advantage of his time, but it feels like the people that would be close to another show. It's, it's like, well, if I need to go say something, I don't, I think I can feel like I can go talk to him, but you're not going to just go for no reason, talk to him. And that's where you see all the old cast members, uh,

them being around him, they, you know, they really gravitate towards him. And he's just like, you know, a father almost to so many people. Yeah. A lot of people's careers is just, this guy was the guy that you would go to and ask for a lot of stuff. That's very cool. Like, you know, his vice and all that. Yeah.

It's only been delayed like maybe three times ever. One of them was the game six of the 1986 World Series. That's the famous Bill Buckner game. It went to extra innings and it was delayed a couple hours starting. Jennifer Lopez hosted once and there was an XFL game going on. XFL just started. The game went long.

And they didn't tell her that this isn't going out live. They went ahead and did it starting at 1130, but it was...

actually 45 minutes late but lauren michaels was so mad about it that he went to nbc the xfl changed their rules just to accommodate him as far as the length of the game and they agreed if the game's never over they're just switching to saturday night live no matter what wow and then the third time was just three years ago when dave chappelle hosted the first episode after the 2020 election in the clemson notre dame football game went to double overtime it started a little late wow

So time is it? Oh, we can wrap it up. Wrap it up. Six 45. I gotta go feed my daughter. Okay. Yeah. Okay. I was like, wait a minute. Hold on. My boobs are telling me I need to feed an infant. We've all been there. Yeah. We're good. That's a legit rule. That's a real reason. It's the only reason we've ever had. Yeah. Someone to leave. Uh,

Really? Yeah, most times people just leave. Most times Nate just asks me to leave and we know it's time to wrap it up. You can just tell by time, like your body, you can just guess what time it is. Yeah, that's why I was like, hold on. Time check, please. Alright, uh...

Well, we really enjoyed it, obviously. Yeah. People have been asking forever for you to be on, so we're so thrilled you finally could do it. Thank you. Thanks for having me. It's the first episode of the new year. First episode of the happy new year, everybody. Happy new year. Happy new year. How's your year going? How's your year? How's your year going? Do you have, what do you have? You have your movie, Candy Lane's out. Yeah, Candy Lane. And you'll be on tour. Candy Lane.

My hour special on YouTube is called Say I Won't. Check that out. Share with all your friends. And your tour. You're on the road. I'm on the road. So come see me. Go to my website, Angela.com and come see me. Yeah.

This weekend, I am in Tulsa, Oklahoma at the Looney Bin, January 4th through 6th. I just opened for Angela in Tulsa at Hard Rock Casino, and she introduces me from the side of the stage. She said, what do you want me to say? And I said, tell them I'm at the Looney Bin, January 4th through 6th. And she said, they ain't going to remember that. I'm just going to say good friend of mine, Brian Bayes. Go see his website. So now I'm letting y'all know I'm at Looney Bin, January 4th through 6th.

She said, they ain't going to remember all that. Just going out there. I mean, Columbus, Ohio at the Funny Bone this weekend, then St. Paul, Minnesota next weekend, and then Dayton, Ohio the next weekend. That's by January. All right. Well, I hope you guys have a wonderful Christmas and a happy new year in 2024. Here we are. All right. We love you. See you next week. Nateland is produced by Nateland Productions and by me, Nate Bargetzi, and my wife, Laura, on the Audioboom platform.

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